easy-chair

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easy-chair (plural easy-chairs)

  1. Alternative spelling of easy chair.
    • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter V, in Wuthering Heights[1]:
      The master told me to light a fire in the many-weeks’ deserted parlour, and to set an easy-chair in the sunshine by the window;
    • 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 58:
      She had chosen green as the predominant colour, and the couch and easy-chairs were upholstered in a lovely design of green and white.